Shouldn't it be Polish-Bolshevik war after all Poles only wanted to squash the Red Scum but not their "brothers" Russians? (I feel for Russians which were not Reds and were not hated by Poles like White or Green :P)

And to be accurate Poles actually were merely defending themselves from the Bolshevik invasion so I would say you wanted to say that you prepared counter offensive to face Bolshevik Scum and to use that to reclaim some land deep east :>

Silber wrote:Shouldn't it be Polish-Bolshevik war after all Poles only wanted to squash the Red Scum but not their "brothers" Russians? (I feel for Russians which were not Reds and were not hated by Poles like White or Green :P)

Well, its a bit more complicated than that, Pilsudski's vision for Poland was a return to the pre-war Polish-Lithuanian federation, including Belarus, and the Ukraine. It was to be named Miedzymorze (Between the Seas). Both the White and Red Russians were viewed as enemies of the new Polish state, but early on Pilsudski had no recourse but to choose the lesser of two evils - he chose the Bolsheviks. By so doing, he inadvertently saved the Bolshevik government by having refused to attack them. The Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-19) that followed served to clarify that the greater threat was the Bolshevik one. Later the Whites and Poles were de facto allies but there were ideological differences, not to mention the fact that Imperial Russia was remembered as the nation which brutally occupied Poland for 123 years.